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Re: [ceqli] Name suffix



I agree completely with this after some thought.
John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Henry"Subject: Re: [ceqli] Name suffix


> > So I'm proposing -zo as the name suffix, and -se- as the hyphen.  

> > And I think foreign names should simply be bracketed just like any
> > foreign word.  For that, we need a CV and a beCV.  After being
> > bracketed, it can take the -zo and proceed as a name as tho it were
> > Ceqli.
> > 
and especially this,
> Probably one pair of particles to bracket foreign proper names, 
> and another to mark foreign common nouns -- not just Latin
> species names, but anything else (clothing, foodstuff, game)
> that's too specific to one culture to need a ceqli form with an 
> official lexicon entry:
> sporran, kimono, grits, Parcheesi, ....